Fothergill (left) with Mark Linfield at the premiere for Earth in April 2009

Alastair Fothergill (born 10 April 1960) is a producer of nature documentaries for television and cinema. He is the executive producer of the multi-award winning series The Blue Planet (2001), Planet Earth (2006) and the co-director of the associated feature films Deep Blue and Earth.

Born in London, Fothergill attended Harrow. He studied zoology at St Cuthbert's Society in the University of Durham and made his first film, On the Okavango, while still a student. Fothergill joined the BBC Natural History Unit in 1983, working on The Really Wild Show, Wildlife on One and David Attenborough's The Trials of Life. He was appointed head of the Unit in 1992, and during his tenure he produced Attenborough's award-winning series Life in the Freezer.

In June 1998, he stood down as head of the Unit to concentrate on his work on The Blue Planet. He has also presented several television programmes, including The Abyss and is the author of three books.

He was awarded the "Clean Energy Award" by BMW during the Cinema for Peace award ceremony on 11 February 2008.

In 2008, he signed a multi-picture deal with newly formed Disneynature, and now spends six months each year on sabbatical from the BBC developing feature documentaries as an independent producer. The first two titles under the Disneynature deal will be Big Cats and Chimpanzee, which he is co-directing with Keith Scholey and Mark Linfield respectively. Fothergill currently lives in Bristol with his wife Melinda and his two sons, Hamish and William.

Film and television credits[link]

• Chimpanzee (2012) – writer and director (with Mark Linfield)
• African Cats (2011) – writer and director (with Keith Scholey)
• Frozen Planet (2011) – executive producer
• Earth (2007) – writer and director (with Mark Linfield)
• Planet Earth (2006) – executive producer
• Deep Blue (2003) – writer and director (with Andy Byatt)
• The Abyss – Live (2002–03) – presenter (with Michael deGruy, Kate Humble and Peter Snow)
• Going Ape (2002) – presenter (with Saba Douglas-Hamilton)
• The Blue Planet (2001) – executive producer
• Natural World, episode "South Georgia: An Island All Alone" (1998) – producer
• Life in the Freezer (1993) – producer
• The Trials of Life (1990) – assistant producer
• Wildlife on One (1988–92) – producer
• Reefwatch (1988) – associate producer
• Wild Britain (1987) – producer
• The Really Wild Show (1986) – producer

External links[link]

• Alastair Fothergill at the Internet Movie Database

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Andy Byatt is an English wildlife documentary film producer for the BBC Natural History Unit (NHU) in Bristol. His expertise is in the creation of underwater wildlife films. He co-directed Deep Blue,^[1] a natural history feature film about the oceans narrated by Michael Gambon. This film was largely put together with highlights from the NHU's internationally acclaimed series, The Blue Planet, of which Byatt was one of the producers, along with Alastair Fothergill and Martha Holmes. His most recent project is Planet Earth an 11-part High-definition TV wildlife series first aired in March 2006.^[2]

References[link]

External links[link]

• Andy Byatt at the Internet Movie Database

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Keith Scholey (born 24 June 1957 in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania) is a British producer of nature documentaries for television and cinema, and a former television executive. He is currently directing the feature film African Cats for Disneynature, in partnership with Alastair Fothergill.^[1] He is also the executive producer of the series 'North America' for the Discovery Channel.

Career[link]

Scholey graduated from Bristol University with a degree in Zoology in 1978 and subsequently completed a PhD in Zoology at the same university.^[2] In 1983, he began working as a researcher at the BBC Natural History Unit on David Attenborough’s series ‘The Living Planet’. He rose to become a producer in this BBC department, making programmes for ‘The Natural World’ and ‘Wildlife on One’ series as well as for David Attenborough’s award winning series 'The Private Life of Plants’. He also created and produced the original series of ‘Big Cat Diary’, which has continued for over a decade, began and series produced the ‘Wildlife Specials’ and became the series editor of ‘Wildlife on One’.

In 1998, Scholey became the Head of the Natural History Unit.^[3] During his four and a half year tenure, the NHU made the memorable David Attenborough series ‘State of the Planet’ and ‘The Life of Mammals’, and also ‘The Blue Planet’, ‘Andes to Amazon’ and ‘Wild Africa’. The department also reinvented its live broadcasting creating ‘The Abyss - Live’ and “Springwatch’.

In 2002, Scholey became the Controller of Specialist Factual for the BBC’s Factual and Learning division.^[4] With responsibility for Science, Arts, Business, History, Religion as well as Natural History departments, he oversaw programmes with a range from landmark programming including, ‘Auschwitz’, ‘Planet Earth’, ‘Egypt’, ‘Supervolcano’ and ‘The Power of Art’ to the classic long running series of Horizon, Timewatch, Natural World, and Arena and live events including the funeral of Pope John Paul II.

In 2006, Scholey became the Controller of Factual Production for BBC Vision, with the responsibility for all BBC Factual in-house production.^[5] During this time, he oversaw the creation of ‘The One Show’, the biggest factual commission in the organisation's history. He was also the Deputy Chief Creative Officer for BBC Vision Productions, with responsibilities across all in-house TV production. In 2008, he resigned from the BBC to pursue a career as an independent film director and television producer.

In recent years, Scholey has directed and produced the feature film African Cats for Disneynature, which is due to be released in the USA on Earth Day, 22 April 2011.(6) He is also the executive producer on the landmark Discovery Channel series 'North America', through his company Wild Horizons Ltd.^[6]

Scholey was made a Doctor of Science (DSc) in 2001, by the University of Bristol for his contribution to the public and to biological sciences. He is a trustee of Wildscreen. Scholey is a qualified SCUBA diver and pilot.

Programme Credits[link]

Director and Producer[link]

• African Cats (2011)

Executive Producer[link]

• North America (working title) (2012)

Producer[link]

• Big Cat Diary (1996)
• Natural Neighbours: Invasion of the Tree Smashers (1996)
• Dawn to Dusk: Elephant Back Safari (1996)
• Wildlife on One: Reef Encounter (1996)
• The Private Life of Plants (1995)
• Wildlife on One: Malice in Wonderland (1994)
• Natural World; Island of the Ghost Bear (1994)
• Prisoners of the Sun (1992)
• Natural World: Running for their Lives (1990)
• Wildlife on One: Haunted Huntress (1990)
• Natural World: Island in the Air (1989)
• The Great Rift^{[disambiguation needed ]} (1988)

Series Editor[link]

• Wildlife on One (1994 to 1997)
• Wildlife Specials (1997)
• Nature Specials (1997)

References[link]

External links[link]

• Disney: African Cats www.disney.com/africancats
• Wild Horizons www.wildhorizonsltd.com

Mark Linfield
Alastair Fothergill with Linfield at the premiere for Earth, April 2009

Mark Linfield is a British writer, producer and director of nature documentaries for cinema and television. He is best known for his work with the BBC Natural History Unit as a producer of two episodes of the television series Planet Earth (2006) and as writer and co-director of the associated feature film Earth (2007).

Career[link]

After training as a zoologist, Mark Linfield began his career at the BBC in 1990, working on a documentary on gorillas in the Congo. The resulting film, "Journey to the Dark Heart", contained the first footage of western lowland gorillas in the wild.^[1]

He left to join the Bristol-based independent production company Green Umbrella, where his credits include "The Temple Troop" and "Orang-utans: The High Society", both shown as part of BBC Two's Natural World strand. The latter programme featured the first footage of wild orang-utans using tools. He also co-produced Triumph of Life, a series on evolution, which was screened on PBS in 2000.

He re-joined the BBC Natural History Unit in 2000 in order to continue working on high-end productions, beginning with David Attenborough's The Life of Mammals. This was followed by an award-winning documentary for Wildlife on One, "Capuchins: The Monkey Puzzle". He joined Alastair Fothergill's team working on Planet Earth and took on responsibility for the episodes "From Pole to Pole" and "Seasonal Forests".

Linfield is currently working on two collaborations with Fothergill: The Frozen Planet, the follow-up series to Planet Earth, and Chimpanzee, a Disneynature feature film.

His wife, Vanessa Berlowitz, is also a producer at the Natural History Unit.

Film and TV credits[link]

• Natural World

Episode: "Journey to the Dark Heart" (1993)

Episode: "The Temple Troop (1997)

Episode: "Orang-utans: The High Society" (1998)

• Triumph of Life (2000)
• The Life of Mammals (2002)
• Wildlife on One

Episode: "Gelada Baboons: The Battles of Braveheart (2000)

Episode: "Capuchins: The Monkey Puzzle" (2004)

• Planet Earth

Episode: "From Pole to Pole" (2006)

Episode: "Seasonal Forests" (2006)

• Earth (2007)
• The Frozen Planet (2011)
• Chimpanzee (2012)

References[link]

External links[link]

• Mark Linfield at the Internet Movie Database

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Charlie Rose
Rose in May 2010
Born	Charles Peete Rose, Jr. (1942-01-05) January 5, 1942 (age 70) Henderson, North Carolina, U.S.
Education	Duke University B.A. (1964) Duke University J.D. (1968)
Occupation	Talk show host Journalist
Years active	1972–present
Notable credit(s)	Charlie Rose, 60 Minutes II, 60 Minutes, CBS News Nightwatch, CBS This Morning
Website
http://www.charlierose.com/

Charles Peete "Charlie" Rose, Jr. (born January 5, 1942)^[1] is an American television talk show host and journalist. Since 1991 he has hosted Charlie Rose, an interview show distributed nationally by PBS since 1993. He has also co-anchored CBS This Morning since January 2012. Rose, along with Lara Logan, has hosted the revived CBS classic Person to Person, a news program during which celebrities are interviewed in their homes, originally hosted from 1953 to 1961 by Edward R. Murrow.^[2]

Early life[link]

Rose was born in Henderson, North Carolina, the only child^[3] of Margaret Frazier and Charles Peete Rose, Sr., tobacco farmers who owned a country store.^[4][5] As a child, Rose lived above his parents' store in Henderson and helped out with the family business from age seven.^[6] Rose admitted in a Fresh Dialogues interview that as a child his insatiable curiosity was constantly getting him in trouble.^[7] A high school basketball star, Rose entered Duke University intending to pursue a degree with a pre-med track, but an internship in the office of Democratic North Carolina Senator B. Everett Jordan got him interested in politics.^[8] Rose graduated in 1964 with a bachelor's degree in history. At Duke, he was a member of the Kappa Alpha Order fraternity. He earned a Juris Doctor from the Duke University School of Law in 1968.^[6] He met his wife, Mary (née King), while attending Duke.^[3][4]

Career[link]

After his wife was hired by the BBC (in New York), Rose handled some assignments for the BBC on a freelance basis. In 1972, while continuing to work at Bankers Trust, he landed a job as a weekend reporter for WPIX-TV. His break came in 1974, after Bill Moyers hired Rose as managing editor for the PBS series Bill Moyers' International Report. In 1975, Moyers named Rose executive producer of Bill Moyers Journal. Rose soon began appearing on camera. "A Conversation with Jimmy Carter," one installment of Moyers's series U.S.A.: People and Politics, won a 1976 Peabody Award. Rose worked at several networks honing his interview skills until KXAS-TV in Dallas-Fort Worth hired him as program manager and gave him the late-night time slot that would become the Charlie Rose show.

Rose worked for CBS News (1984–1990) as the anchor of CBS News Nightwatch, the network's first late-night news broadcast. The Nightwatch broadcast of Rose's interview with Charles Manson won an Emmy Award in 1987.^[4] In 1990, Rose left CBS to serve as anchor of Personalities, a syndicated program produced by Fox Broadcasting Company, but he got out of his contract after six weeks because of the tabloid-style content of the show. Charlie Rose premiered on PBS station Thirteen/WNET on September 30, 1991, and has been nationally syndicated since January 1993. In 1994, Rose moved the show to a studio owned by Bloomberg Television, which allowed for improved satellite interviewing.^[9]

Rose was a correspondent for 60 Minutes II^[10] from its inception in January 1999 until its cancellation in September 2005, and was later named a correspondent on 60 Minutes.^[11]

Rose was a member of the board of directors of Citadel Broadcasting Corporation from 2003 to 2009.^[3] In May 2010, Charlie Rose delivered the commencement address at North Carolina State University.

On November 15, 2011, it was announced that Rose would return to CBS to help anchor CBS This Morning, replacing The Early Show, commencing January 9, 2012, along with co-anchors Erica Hill and Gayle King.

Cameo appearances[link]

Rose has appeared as himself in the 1998 film Primary Colors,^[12] in a 2000 episode of The Simpsons^[13] and in the 2008 movie Elegy.^[14] He and his show were also used in the Wes Anderson film The Royal Tenenbaums. He also appears as himself in the 2011 George Clooney directed film, The Ides of March.

[edit] Accusations of conflict of interest

While hosting the 2002 Coca-Cola Company shareholders' meeting, Rose said "few companies are able to connect as completely with consumers in the way that Coca-Cola is. It is a privilege to be associated with [The Coca-Cola family] ... This is the business of Coca-Cola: being part of a family, being worldwide, doing well and doing good at the same time."^[15] Afterward, Coca-Cola agreed to become what Rose called "a leading underwriter" of The Charlie Rose Show, paying "six or possibly seven figures."^[16] Even the Charlie Rose mugs used on his PBS show feature a Coca-Cola logo on one side.^[17][18] Although CBS News policy bars correspondents from doing commercials and product endorsements, the Washington Post reported CBS was "comfortable" with Rose's actions. Rose insists he "would never do a story on 60 Minutes II about anybody who underwrites my PBS show."^[16]

[edit] Quiet influence

The New York Times reported that Rose encouraged a discussion between the leaders of NBC and Fox, that led eventually to a mutual reduction in ad hominem attacks between Keith Olbermann and Bill O'Reilly on their respective news programs.^[19]

Rose has attended several Bilderberg Group conference meetings, including meetings held in the United States in 2008;^[20] Spain in 2010;^[21] and Switzerland in 2011.^[22] These unofficial conferences hold guests from North America and Western Europe, most of whom are political leaders and businessmen. Details of meetings are closed off to the public and strictly invitation-only, and critics^[who?] speculate the controversial nature of these meetings of highly influential people. Accusations from conspiracy theorists against The Charlie Rose show claim that it has become the US media outlet for Bilderberg.^{[23][unreliable source?]}

Personal life[link]

Rose's twelve-year marriage to Mary Rose (née King) ended in divorce in 1980. Mary is the sister-in-law of Morgan Stanley Chairman John J. Mack. Since 1993, his companion has been socialite and chairman of the New York City Planning Commission and director of the city department of planning Amanda Burden, a stepdaughter of CBS founder William S. Paley.^[24]

On March 29, 2006, after experiencing shortness of breath in Syria, Rose was flown to Paris and underwent surgery for mitral valve repair in the Georges-Pompidou European Hospital. His surgery was performed under the supervision of Alain F. Carpentier, a pioneer of the procedure.^[25] Rose returned to the air on June 12, 2006, with Bill Moyers and Yvette Vega (the show's executive producer), to discuss his surgery and recuperation.

In a 2009 Fresh Dialogues interview, Rose described his life as "great and glorious."^[7] He added, '"I get up every morning with a new adventure. The adventure is fueled by interesting people. I get a chance to control my own destiny. I do something that is immediately either appreciated or not. I get feedback."

Rose owns a 575-acre (2.33 km²) farm in Oxford, North Carolina, an apartment overlooking Central Park in New York City, a beach house in Bellport, New York, an apartment in Washington D.C.^[3] and an apartment in Paris, France.

References[link]

External links[link]

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• Charlie Rose Official website of his eponymous show
• Charlie Rose official channel on YouTube
• Appearances on C-SPAN
• Charlie Rose at the Internet Movie Database
• Charlie Rose collected news and commentary at the Los Angeles Times
• Charlie Rose collected news and commentary at The New York Times
• Charlie Rose at the Notable Names Database
• Charlie Rose shows on Hulu
• celebritynetworth.com, Celebrity Net Worth, Charlie Rose
• Why Business Loves Charlie Rose David A. Kaplan, Fortune, September 28, 2009